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Benkroll challenge

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Mikus8: 17.11.2014 23:39.

Bankroll is 100$
Goal is 10000$

I have done this before, so I am fairly confident I will get it done again.

Plan is to play HU sit and goes to stay above 100$ and take aggressive shots at HU tournaments and play some other tournaments as well. When bankroll reaches 600$ I will start taking shots at HU NL and go from there.

I will play this challenge only on stars and try to update pretty often.

Had the biggest burnout of my life for almost two months, right when I started this blog.

I have been playing poker since I was 16. And I just turned 21. I have had ups and downs, but this was something new to me. For the last year my spendings IRL have been bigger than income from poker, and it just wasn't the same for me as before.

When I was still going to school, poker was just so much fun, I would come home and play tournaments til 1AM, occasionally 4AM, and I had a blast. And I made and average of 25k$ a year until 2014.

When school ended I was really excited because I thought I was going to make myself rich as fuck because I had all the time in the world for poker, but in reality it wasn't like that at all. I tried to make poker my job, but it didn't work out.

One reason for that was that I couldn't manage my time properly, I would just wake up at 6PM because of all the tournament action, go to bed when everyone would wake up, after doing that for 4-5 months I couldn't live like that anymore. Then I tried to switch to HU cash, because I thought that I would be able to chose my hours more flexibly, but it wasn't like that at all, every day I had to spend at least 3 hours waiting for action, getting hit and run a bunch, and owned by rake. Also I had to work on my game a lot, and grinding database was something new for me and I really didn't find it fun.

Other reason it didn't work out was because it was just way to stressful having to rely on so much variables to make a living.

And the most important thing. Poker was no more fun. The more I tried to make it my job, the more it felt like job. I didn't like it as a job.

Then I decided to make a switch. This august signed for car mechanic courses. I saw many benefits in this. First of all, I would have something to occupy my time, so poker could be only a hobby again. Secondly I would have a backup job opportunities if poker disappears. And also I would be able to fix my own shit, and understand how to build and sustain a drift machine I am going to have one day.
Life twist is that these courses haven't started yet, but I have some kind of other courses to keep me occupied until 26.01.15.

So here I am today. I have less than 10$ IRL. I just had 2 months when I would just turn sick if I played a hand of poker. (It really was that bad) In total since the start of this blog I have played about 10 hours of poker.
I have spent all my last withdrawal. And on top of that I took some overly aggressive shots, with my baby bankroll and it is 54.87$ now, still more than IRL.

However. This time has helped me realize how much poker has given me, and I really miss it now. So I am making a comeback.

Not gonna go in too much more detail because I think it will be too long of a read and who cares anyways.

TL;DR : I had 2 month burnout from poker and I have no more money IRL, bankroll is 54.87$

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Mikus8: 22.12.2014 23:37.

Update.

I am still playing more league than poker but it's getting better. Played a bunch of spin and goes so my bankroll fluctuated between 85 and 25$. I was down to 21$ at one point but decided I'm not going busto so I started winning a bit.
While doing that pokerstars mission where you have to play zoom poker I found out that it's easy money. So I am going to play nl2 zoom poker for a few days and see what happens.

The reason why you don't see my bankroll growing steadily is because I am constantly taking shots at tournaments so most of the money I grind I lose in tournaments, but plan is to eventually win one of those and get money.

Two more things:
1) I will no longer use hud for tournaments and 6-9max games. HUDs are bad for game and piss me off.
2) I will no longer be participating in pokerstrategys bankroll challenge because I don't want to. I will be keeping this blog though.

I was smoking so much weed lately that it started feeling bad. So I set myself a rule that I can only buy myself 1g for every 100 hours I put into grinding. I'm not a junkie or anything but this is so exciting, I actually want to put in those 4+ hours every day and am looking forward to my first hard earned weed

Also I made a 100 euro bankroll bet with my only poker friend, first one to make a 10k bankroll wins 100 euro from the other. When we made this bet he had 1k bankroll, I had 50$. He is playing only tournaments so it will be a fun race. He currently has 1.5k already
, but I think I am going to win this bet anyway

I wanted to exclude myself from tournaments for a month but apparently you can't do that, so I did this instead
Nothing really special nor helpful but it's something. Also lowered tournament BI to 2.21$ as I write this.

Yesterday I woke up feeling really sick so I stayed at home and tried to grind, but I wasn't happy with my game at all, lost a bit of money, quit and played league for the most time. Then I decided to pull and allnighter because I had a friend with whom I could play league. After she went to sleep at about 5am I decided I was not going to mess up my sleep schedule really bad so I rather stay up the whole day.
I played 2 or 3 tournaments that in the end only cost me money and tilted me a bit.
Then I watched a bunch of documentaries, one about Jonestown massacre, about some serial killers, then I watched a documentary about 9/11 called 102 minutes that changed america, really, really crazy movie made from witnesses filmed materials, and you can see the hell that was happening on that day. Very powerful movie.
After that I opened two zoom tables and grind those for a bit while watching streams, things went pretty good and I actually played those two tables for 6hours, making 20$ stack at one of the tables. So I made some profit these days whilst being a bit of a zombie. And speaking of zombies...

Pokerstars offered me a really generous ultimative challenge with 77.50$ reward if I grind 3100VPP in 30 days. And I made 28VPP so far
only way I can make this happen is by moving up stakes ASAP and grind that bitch hard.

I wish I could just refresh myself right now and continue grinding, but I guess the only option for that is going to sleep and see what tomorrow brings.
Bankroll is 61.30$